Force and Contention in Contemporary China: Memory and Resistance in the Long Shadow of the Catastrophic Past (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics) - Tapa blanda

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Thaxton Jr, Ralph A.

 
9781107539822: Force and Contention in Contemporary China: Memory and Resistance in the Long Shadow of the Catastrophic Past (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)
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ISBN 10: 110753982X ISBN 13: 9781107539822
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Sinopsis

Why is contemporary China such a politically contentious place? Relying on the memories of the survivors of the worst catastrophe of Maoist rule and documenting the rise of resistance and protest at the grassroots level, this book explains how the terror, hunger, and loss of the socialist past influences the way in which people in the deep countryside see and resist state power in the reform era up to the present-day repression of the People's Republic of China central government. Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr provides us with a worm's-eye view of an 'unknown China' - a China that cannot easily or fully be understood through made-in-the-academy theories and frameworks of why and how rural people have engaged in contentious politics. This book is a truly unique and disturbing look at how rural people relate to an authoritarian political system in a country that aspires to become a stable world power.

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Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr is Professor of Politics at Brandeis University and a Research Affiliate at the Harvard University John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. He is the author of Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China (2008) and the winner of multiple international fellowships, including grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and the United States Institute for Peace. Professor Thaxton has been a fellow at the Dartmouth College John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and a distinguished Croxton Lecturer in the Amherst College Department of Political Science.

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Editorial
Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2016
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ISBN 10 
110753982X
ISBN 13 
9781107539822
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Número de páginas
488
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9781107117198: Force and Contention in Contemporary China: Memory and Resistance in the Long Shadow of the Catastrophic Past (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)

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ISBN 10:  1107117194 ISBN 13:  9781107117198
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2016
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